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Carriage-Seat.

No. 65,201. Patented May 28. '1867.

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CHESTERiDJFLYNT. OF COLLINSVILLE, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 65,201, dated .May 28, 1867.

' IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-SEATS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, CHESTER D. FLYNT, of Collinsville, in the county of Madison, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Seats for Carriages; and I do hereby deelarethat the following is a full and clear description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention consists in the formation of a seat by interwoven or interlaced steel bands or wires, firmly afiixed to a permanent frame, and having a yielding cushion interposed between the said steel wires or hands and the said permanent frame. 7 i

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my improved seat, Iwill proceed to deseribeits construction and operation.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan of the improved seat Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the centre of the seat.

A is a wooden frame, built of the proper size and form, for the seat. The bands B are steel wires or bands, such as are used in the manufacture of hoop-skirts, and are interwoven or interlaced with each other in a man nor similar to a woven textile fabric or to the bottom of a cane-seated chair. The ends of the pieces B should be notched or serrated, and-fastened to the frame A by means of small nails or staples, driven into thcwooden frame through the' said notches, as shown clearly at b, where a portion of the covering-strap 6 is broken out so as to disclose the mode of attachment. There is a cushion, C, of India rubber or some similar elastic material, interposed between the frameA and the bands B, which raises theinterior portion of the seat up in a convexform, and which yields readily to a depression of the seat without endangering the fracture of any of the pieces B, as they would be endangered were the said pieces 13 to rest on a rigid foundation. The convex form of the tops of the pieces 13 permits them to spring downward without the elongation of any of their fibres, and consequently there will be no liability to fracture from that cause. v

I do not claim the woven nature of this seat as new, neither do I claim as my invention the afiixing such woven seat to an open frame; but what I claim as my invention, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, i's The spring-cushion O, in combination with the frame A and the bands B, substantially as described.

' C. D. FLYNT. Witnesses:

M. RANDOLPH, Geo. P. HERTHEL, Jr. 

